Anniversaries 18 May
Birth
![Omar Khayyám photo]()
Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
1048–1131
![Roger Joseph Boscovich photo]()
Croat-Italian physicist
1711–1787
![Andrew Ure photo]()
Scottish doctor and chemist
1778–1857
![Martin Harris photo]()
Book of Mormon witness
1783–1875
![John Wilson photo]()
Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854)
1785–1854
![Mikhail Bakunin photo]()
Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collect…
1814–1876
![Oliver Heaviside photo]()
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist
1850–1925
![Isaac Leib Peretz photo]()
Yiddish language author and playwright
1852–1915
![Yane Sandanski photo]()
Bulgarian revolutionary
1872–1915
![Bertrand Russell photo]()
logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and politi…
1872–1970
![Walter Gropius photo]()
German architect (1883-1969) and founder of the Bauhaus Sch…
1883–1969
![Ture Nerman photo]()
Swedish socialist
1886–1969
![Rudolf Carnap photo]()
German philosopher
1891–1970
![Augusto Sandino photo]()
Nicaraguan revolutionary
1895–1934
![Brock Chisholm photo]()
Doctor and soldier
1896–1971
![Frank Capra photo]()
Sicilian-born American film director
1897–1991
![Shunryu Suzuki photo]()
Japanese Buddhist missionary
1904–1971
![Fred Perry photo]()
English tennis player
1909–1995
![Charles Trenet photo]()
French singer-songwriter
1913–2001
![Nicolás Gómez Dávila photo]()
Colombian writer and philosopher
1913–1994
![Margot Fonteyn photo]()
English ballerina
1919–1991
![Pope John Paul II photo]()
264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
1920–2005
![Anthony Storr photo]()
English psychiatrist
1920–2001
![Sara Shane photo]()
American actress
1928–2022
![Mike Zwerin photo]()
American jazz musician
1930–2010
![Robert Todd Carroll photo]()
American philosopher
1945–2016
![Frank Hsieh photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1946
![Reggie Jackson photo]()
American professional baseball player, outfielder, coach
1946
![Rick Wakeman photo]()
English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio prese…
1949
![George Strait photo]()
American country music singer, actor and music producer
1952
![Philip Arnold Subira Anyolo photo]()
Kenyan Roman Catholic archbishop
1956
![Debbie Dadey photo]()
American children's writer
1959
![Tim Moore photo]()
British travel writer and humorist
1964
![Andrés Montoya photo]()
American writer
1968–1999
![Shelley Lubben photo]()
author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornograph…
1968–2019
![Sean Sellers photo]()
American murderer
1969–1999
![Delcy Rodríguez photo]()
Venezuelan politician and lawyer
1969
![Tina Fey photo]()
American comedian, writer, producer and actress
1970
![Karen Lamb photo]()
British tennis player
1982
![Vince Young photo]()
American college football player, professional football pla…
1983
![Alexandria Villaseñor photo]()
American climate activist
2005
Death
![Pierre Beaumarchais photo]()
French playwright diplomat and polymath
1732–1799
![George Meredith photo]()
British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
1828–1909
![Gustav Mahler photo]()
late-Romantic Austrian composer
1860–1911
![Werner Sombart photo]()
German economist, sociologist, historian
1863–1941
![Bill Haywood photo]()
Labor organizer
1869–1928
![James Truslow Adams photo]()
American writer and historian
1878–1949
![Apsley Cherry-Garrard photo]()
British explorer
1886–1959
![Elmer Davis photo]()
American politician
1890–1958
![Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis photo]()
Dutch historian
1892–1965
![William Saroyan photo]()
American writer
1908–1981
![Henri Laborit photo]()
French physician, writer and philosopher
1914–1995
![K. Pattabhi Jois photo]()
Indian yoga teacher
1915–2009
![Jacque Fresco photo]()
American futurist and self-described social engineer
1916–2017
![Gilbert Sorrentino photo]()
American writer
1929–2006
![Pierre-Gilles de Gennes photo]()
French Physicist
1932–2007
![Hedley Bull photo]()
Australian academic
1932–1985
![Roger Ailes photo]()
Television executive
1940–2017
![Ian Curtis photo]()
musician and songwriter
1956–1980
![Chris Cornell photo]()
American singer-songwriter, musician
1964–2017
